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with the nurseryman. Nor will he, if he is at all liberal minded, feel 

 bad about your selling small trees. As stated elsewhere, if you have 

 the room to spare, plant a few of the varieties most popular in your 

 section and let them grow into money. Up to 5- or 6-in. almost any 

 tree can be handled without much machinery and yet will bring a 

 good price. 



Of course, a great deal depends upon how far a good nursery is 

 located from you. If it is at all near, you may find it just as profit- 

 able to take the orders and have the nurseryman deliver the trees for 

 you. You will have to decide that yourself, but in either case it won't 

 hurt you to become acquainted with a few of the many good trees 

 there are. 



In planting trees of any kind bear in mind that the heavier the 

 soil, the more liberal you should be in digging the holes for them. 

 You can never overdo this — never. While you do want to pack the 

 soU around a newly planted tree as solid and firm as you can get it, 

 the deeper you have cultivated the soil in which the roots can go, 

 the better success you will have. Good soil and a liberal amount of 

 well decomposed manure mixed with it are things that every tree 

 will appreciate. 



Here are the sixteen trees I would suggest that every retail 



grower get familiar with and handle if the opportunity offers: 



Maple, Norway Mountain Ash 



Mapi^, Sugar Oak 



Maple, Purple-lbat Plane 



Maple, Gut-leaf Poplar 



Ash (Fraxinus americana) 



The White Ash is one of the finest of our native trees and at- 

 tains an enormous size. We often find it in low, marshy places, or, 

 again, on high ground where it seems to thrive equaUy weU, 

 though growing more slowly. The thing that people often object 

 to about both the White and the Black Ash is not that they have 

 anything against the tree itself, but the fact that it may already grow 

 in its native state in the neighborhood they live in. 



Ashes should always be planted where the trees will have plenty 

 of chance to grow without being crowded. They will grow in time 

 as tall as any tree we have, yet their shade is not so dense as that of 

 Maples or other trees beneath which grass often cannot he made to 

 grow. 



Beech (Fagus) 



The Beeches make great trees, and where they do at aU well, 

 should be included in an assortment. One of the most showy is 

 the Copper Beech {Fagus sylvatica purpurea) with its copper-colored 

 leaves and spreading habit — an excellent lawn specimen. 



